GNU bug report logs - #57041
[PATCH] Add a word about warnings to CONTRIBUTE

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2022 14:43:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch, wontfix

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 57041 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 57041 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefan <at> marxist.se
Subject: Re: bug#57041: [PATCH] Add a word about warnings to CONTRIBUTE
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 18:15:41 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>,  57041 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:05:09 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > But I see no particular reasons to describe exceptions.
> 
> This does seem useful to state explicitly:
> 
> + we don't
> +usually care about warnings from ancient or buggy compilers, but we do
> +try to pacify warnings from stable versions of GCC.
> 
> Because it has happened that people have submitted patches to pacify
> ancient gcc versions, and that's not useful work.

Why do we have to say this in CONTRIBUTE, though?  It's already too
long; making it longer will just increase the probability of TL;DR,
and no one's the wiser.
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